Beat the Press With a Box Midfield - Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Arteta's Tactics - Paperback

This book analyses how Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta build play under pressure - and provides tactical detail and ready-to-use training sessions to help you coach those methods with your own team.

UEFA 'A' Licence Coach and award-winning author Athanasios Terzis delivers a detailed tactical analysis, with structured solutions and 47 practices across 7 ready-to-use session plans - making it easy to apply modern build-up principles in your sessions right away and see the difference on the pitch.

What You'll Gain as a Coach:

• Play through high presses using structured box midfield rotations
• Create overloads in key areas to break pressure and progress play
• Exploit space with coordinated movements and passing combinations
• Build from the goalkeeper into the final third with control and intent

What's inside?

• Tactical solutions for building up play against different pressing and defending styles
• Proven models for both 3-at-the-back and 2-at-the-back box midfield build-up systems
• 47 detailed training practices with progressions to simulate match-day pressure
• Step-by-step coaching points and progressions to build team intelligence in possession
• Position-specific detail to improve player decision making and timing